Karnolab

  • So, I have been tasked with beginning a selfie challenge in which you take a selfie in the lab/field and then pass the torch on to another person in the Karnovsky lab! This is me and my darling otoliths. You…

  • Nola Shi’15 has sent an update on her postgrad research adventures in Oregon! “We finished up our woody riparian and wet meadow point counts. We basically trudged 6-8 miles through marshland (nothing like water and cow poop sloshing around in…

  • So, I’m up to my ears in otoliths (pun intended). I’ve gotten a decent way through sorting all of them and picking out a pretty representative sample from each season to put in immersion oil, and I’ve finally started taking…

  • There is a lot going on here besides just the seabirds, and I thought it would be nice to make a post showing some of the animals we see when we stop to just look around a bit. There’s a…

  • Well only some of them are actually owls… Great horned owl attempting to bore holes into the camera with its eyes Barn Owl (This is the first time we’ve seen owls in the project so far!) Rabbits staring into the…

  • Hi Everyone!! Monday was my first day of work here at WHOI (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution). Let me just say that Woods Hole is AMAZING! It’s so beautiful, the weather is perfect (most of the time… there’s a storm coming…

  • Hi all! Nicole here, and since I’m the semi-local of the group I wanted to write about places I’ve been showing the others! Yay field trips! But first here are some pictures of my Black Oystercatcher nest through a scope!  …

  • The double crested cormorant (DCCO) is the most common cormorant in the United States, but you wouldn’t know that in Sea Ranch since we see relatively few of these guys around. Unlike the Pelagic Cormorant and the Brandt’s Cormorant, the Double…

  • Pesky paparazzi… Ready for my close-up Plans of world domination or an innocent clearing of the throat – we will never know… Exclusive rabbit party – you’re not invited Get my good side And my other good side Silly humans……

  • This past week brought a new adventure for the Sea Ranch team! We (Jeffrey, Kyle, Nicole, and I) volunteered along with several other individuals to help with an intertidal survey conducted by  UC Santa Cruz’s Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department.…